[轉貼]日本讀賣新聞報導東芝將會喺今年年底推出BD機

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原文:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/atmoney/news/20090719-OYT1T00060.htm

英文:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mul ... _of_2009_Rumor.html

內容大概係話東芝會喺年尾推出BD機, 但係東芝未有證實呢個消息.

laiho

始終都要面對現實

鐵心心

東芝

MSZ

讀賣新聞今日出咗篇英文版嘅報導, 詳細過之前過篇:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20090720TDY01302.htm

Toshiba to produce Blu-ray Disc players

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Toshiba Corp., which lost the battle to become the high-definition DVD standard format to the consortium that promoted the Blu-ray Disc format, plans to enter the Blu-ray market, according to sources.

The electronics maker will introduce play-only models that read Blu-ray Discs and DVDs by the end of the year.

According to the sources, Toshiba was aiming to recover from its setback by developing a next-generation technology that would supersede the Blu-ray format, but it changed the policy because the market is growing too big to ignore, the sources said.

With Toshiba entering the market, all major electronics makers will be producing Blu-ray products. Diversification of Blu-ray Disc players and software is anticipated.

Toshiba will start with play-only models because it perceives demand for Blu-ray recorders is unlikely to increase.

TV programs are increasingly distributed on the Internet overseas, whereas it is mainstream in Japan to record TV programs.

The company will consider producing Blu-ray recorders based on the demand it sees after entering the market, the sources said.

In the fight to become the new standard after DVD, Toshiba promoted its own HD DVD format, but the company failed to win adoption as the industry standard as Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. promoted Blu-ray and gained support from Hollywood studios. Toshiba withdrew from the HD DVD business in March 2008.

The Blu-ray market has entered a full-fledged expansion phase, as consumers buy Blu-ray recorders together with new flat-screen TVs capable of receiving digital terrestrial broadcasting ahead of the signal's switchover from analog in July 2011.

According to research company BCN Inc., units of Blu-ray recorders sold accounted for 66.4 percent of all video recorders sold in Japan in May.

If Toshiba stayed out of the Blu-ray business, the sales of its flat-screen TVs--the core of its audiovisual division--could be negatively affected.

At the company's shareholders meeting in June, then President Atsutoshi Nishida, currently chairman, said: "It's not that we won't do it because we've lost [the format battle]. We'll deal with the issue flexibly."
(Jul. 20, 2009)

jessica

會吾會顺手可以睇埋 HD-DVD